THEO 1091 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Inequality Of Bargaining Power, New Covenant, New Revised Standard Version
11 Jun 2018
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Hebrew Bible
Genesis
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● Creation Stories and their sources
Creation Order
1. light & darkness
2. sky & water
3. land
4. sun, moon, & stars
5. birds, fish
6. animals, humans
o P source
▪ a hymn praising God’s creation and a philosophical reflection on the order of
created beings
▪ The world as pre-existent matter
▪ God brings order and goodness into a chaotic world
▪ Is there evil in the world? Major problem for Israel as there is only one good
God
▪ Evil is not pre-existent-in the beginning there was nothing; evil could not have
existed
▪ 1:26—let US make a human in our image (the royal we). God is relational and
so it would be with human beings
▪ The blueprint of all creation: all is made according to an order, in 6 days,
through the Word of God.
▪ Introduction to the Sabbath
o JE Source
▪ the folkloric legend, predating P
▪ Main point: how did people gain knowledge
▪ Alternative answer to the question of evil
▪ Introducing the question of free will
▪ The serpent is NOT Satan
▪ The expulsion from the garden of Eden is a journey into a new life
● Adam & Eve
o Genesis 2, see JE source above
o God creates man to rule over all others, and gives him a wife to reproduce
o Wife eats from the tree of knowledge of good and evil
▪ Expelled from paradise
▪ Loss of innocence
▪ Explanation of mortality
▪ serpent slithers, man toils and works, and woman give childbirth
painfully
● Universal History
o Biblical description of origin and history of Earth
o God creates the world
▪ Intervenes directly in world events
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▪ Directs the course of world history
▪ Establishes a bond (image and likeness, later covenant) with humankind in
general and with Israel (the land and people of Canaan/Palestine) in particular
● Noah flood
o J version is really old, and then the P adds on more than 1,000 years later
o P source: sends huge calamity; J source: rained for 40 days
o God regrets creating humankind and decides to purge them from the earth
o Noah finds favor with God and is spared
o Sources differ on how flood came about, how Noah collected animals, and what bird
was sent to look for land
o Jewish take on archetype is unique because it concludes with God establishing a
covenant
▪ Agreement between two unequal parties
▪ God will never again destroy the earth
● Israel’s ancestors: story cycles
o The Abraham cycle
▪ God’s promise and subsequent covenant
▪ lived in Ur w/ Sarai (half-sister) who can't bare children
▪ told to go to promised land (Palestine/ Canaan)
▪ Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah-Abraham picks up nephew Lot, Lot leaves
Abraham for Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham gets word that it’s an awful
place, God is going to destroy it. Abraham goes to save Lot; hosts save people
and God destroys cities.
▪ Isaac=freedom and Ishmael=slavery
▪ Abraham’s near sacrifice
o The Jacob/Israel cycle (Jacob=Israel; father of Joseph and Judah)
▪ two discrepancies how the covenant gets passed down
● Judah because ancestor of David
● Joseph because he’s Israel’s favorite son
▪ Rebekah (Jacob & Esau’s mom, Isaac’s wife) helps Jacob steal the birthright-
● Jacob was second son, Rebecca loved him more than Esau. Rebekah
dressed Jacob to impersonate Esau; Jacob gets the blessing to inherit
covenant.
▪ Incident with Laban, Rachel, and Leah
● Jacob leaves to live with uncle Laban because he’s scared of Esau.
Works 7 years to work off debt and marry Rachel; night of wedding,
she’s veiled and they consummate marriage and realizes in morning it
was Leah. Works another 7 years and marries Rachel.
▪ Relationship with Esau
● Jacob begs for forgiveness; Esau does not care.
▪ His many children and daughter, Dinah (rape of Dinah)
● Forced to marry non-israelite that defiled her. Brothers convinced her
to marry because she would never be able to marry otherwise.
o Jacob and his sons
▪ Joseph
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Document Summary
Major problem for israel as there is only one good. God: evil is not pre-existent-in the beginning there was nothing; evil could not have existed, 1:26 let us make a human in our image (the royal we). God is relational and so it would be with human beings: the blueprint of all creation: all is made according to an order, in 6 days, through the word of god. Universal history: biblical description of origin and history of earth, god creates the world. Intervenes directly in world events: directs the course of world history, establishes a bond (image and likeness, later covenant) with humankind in. Abraham gets word that it"s an awful place, god is going to destroy it. Abraham goes to save lot; hosts save people and god destroys cities. Isaac=freedom and ishmael=slavery: abraham"s near sacrifice, the jacob/israel cycle (jacob=israel; father of joseph and judah) two discrepancies how the covenant gets passed down.
